ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,948, issued on March 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Software-defined coherent caching of pooled memory" was invented by Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain), Karthik Kumar (Chandler, Ariz.), Alexander Bachmutsky (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zhongyan Lu (Beijing) and Thomas Willhalm (Sandhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for software-defined coherent caching of pooled memory. The pooled memory is implemented in an environment having a disaggregated architecture where compute resources such as compute platforms are connected to disaggregated memory via a network or fabric. Softwar...